Post by The Folks @ TanneryWhistle.com on Dec 8, 2003 16:52:51 GMT -5
Well, Pegleg, "Night of the Hunter" was directed by Charles Laughton. I believe it was his single effort. I don't agree, of course. I love this movie. I think maybe I love the "overacting," especially Mitchum. Thought the camera work was especially admirable, and I loved the strange angles, like the one from beneath the water when the two fisherman hook the windshield of the car.....and the "critters" like the frogs.... Of course, I was young and impressionable and went about talking about Mitchum's hands and the knife at the girlie show for years.
I'm also a big fan of the author, Davis (David?) Grubb who did another strange one starring Jimmie Stewart as a preacher with a glass eye who was given to removing it at inopportune times. Yeah, I agree about the 30's feel of the movie and I usually tell folks (mistakenly, of course) that it was made around '39.
You might like the new German thriller, "Anatomy," which stars that woman that runs all the way through "Run, Lola, Run" (also, a favorite of mine). It is a big hit in Germany and has its own MVM version with a lot of goth types crawling around in a morgue while they smirk and growl. I liked it. A sequel is already out, and I have ordered it.
Watched "The Eye" the other night. Do you know about this one? Japanese horror. The story is a lot better than the film. I love the idea of a blind woman receiving cornea imlants and then beginning to see "the dead," walking around the city. She goes on a search to find the woman (a suicide) who originally had her eyes (plural despite the movie's title) and ends up as a Cassandra type woman who "foresees" disasters before they occur. Great idea, but the strange pacing of the film ruined it. Loved the last scene in which the woman is stalled in traffic and begins to see hundreds of dead people streaming out of a tunnel in front of her. A combustible chemical is pouring through the tunnel and a fire is advancing through the stalled traffic while the woman runs from car to car attempting to warn everyone about what is coming. Nice scene in a movie filled with inept, dragging action.
Gary
P. S. I also loved "The Devil's Backbone," which is a Spanish horror film. Some of the best acting I have seen in a horror film.
I'm also a big fan of the author, Davis (David?) Grubb who did another strange one starring Jimmie Stewart as a preacher with a glass eye who was given to removing it at inopportune times. Yeah, I agree about the 30's feel of the movie and I usually tell folks (mistakenly, of course) that it was made around '39.
You might like the new German thriller, "Anatomy," which stars that woman that runs all the way through "Run, Lola, Run" (also, a favorite of mine). It is a big hit in Germany and has its own MVM version with a lot of goth types crawling around in a morgue while they smirk and growl. I liked it. A sequel is already out, and I have ordered it.
Watched "The Eye" the other night. Do you know about this one? Japanese horror. The story is a lot better than the film. I love the idea of a blind woman receiving cornea imlants and then beginning to see "the dead," walking around the city. She goes on a search to find the woman (a suicide) who originally had her eyes (plural despite the movie's title) and ends up as a Cassandra type woman who "foresees" disasters before they occur. Great idea, but the strange pacing of the film ruined it. Loved the last scene in which the woman is stalled in traffic and begins to see hundreds of dead people streaming out of a tunnel in front of her. A combustible chemical is pouring through the tunnel and a fire is advancing through the stalled traffic while the woman runs from car to car attempting to warn everyone about what is coming. Nice scene in a movie filled with inept, dragging action.
Gary
P. S. I also loved "The Devil's Backbone," which is a Spanish horror film. Some of the best acting I have seen in a horror film.